Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), covalent-organic frameworks (COFs) and metal-organic polyhedra (MOPs)
Functional delivery systems
Group leader
Maspoch Comamala, Daniel
ICREA Research Professor and Group Leader
Dr Daniel Maspoch is a chemist who has always maintained a rewarding balance between fundamental and applied research, making pioneering contributions to the fields of porous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), covalent-organic frameworks (COFs), metal-organic polyhedra (MOPs) and delivery systems. His scientific career began with a degree in chemistry from the
Universitat de Girona, followed by a PhD in materials science from the
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
and the
Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona. He then spent two years at the
Northwestern University
(Illinois, US) as a postdoctoral fellow in the group led by Prof. Chad A. Mirkin. He has been an ICREA research professor and group leader at the ICN2 since September 2011.
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In 2021, Prof. Maspoch got the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant. In addition, he was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2014, and an ERC Proof-of-Concept Grant in 2019. He received the Marcial Moreno Mas Lectureship award in 2015 and the Research Excellence Award from the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry in 2020. He has authored 176 papers and six book chapters.
Several technologies and materials developed under his leadership are currently being used by companies with products on the market. In total, Prof. Maspoch has signed 22 research contracts with private companies and filed 12 patents, four of which have been licensed. He has also signed four technology transfer contracts that have given rise to different product families, such as LuctaCaps® and Fungipol@CP. Most recently, he has co-founded the spin-off Ahead Therapeutics S.L.
